.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 243 122
Rank change year-on-year -59 -121 -5
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 352 580 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 1.21% 2.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.66% 5.61% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 326 408 1,175
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £40,200
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,875 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,214 10,344 12,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.82% 21.56% 24.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,775 6,064 10,166
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,688
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +0.39% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +18 110 £75,000 +7.14% 57
North of England -22 99 £55,000 - 56
North West +18 65 £55,000 -2.22% 33
South East -38 50 £58,750 +8.80% 83
Midlands -9 45 £65,000 +23.81% 35
East Midlands -11 33 £65,000 +26.83% 21
South West +9 30 £52,500 -23.64% 21
Yorkshire -42 23 £40,000 -20.00% 12
West Midlands -8 12 £45,000 -14.29% 14
East of England -14 12 £60,000 +20.00% 31
North East -8 11 £52,500 +16.67% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.42%) Confluence
1 5 (1.42%) IIS
2 2 (0.57%) CMS
2 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) Kentico
3 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 234 (66.48%) Azure
2 89 (25.28%) AWS
3 57 (16.19%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (11.36%) Serverless
5 31 (8.81%) GitHub
6 21 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (5.11%) Power Platform
7 18 (5.11%) SaaS
8 15 (4.26%) Azure Functions
8 15 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
9 14 (3.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (3.98%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.98%) AWS Step Functions
10 13 (3.69%) Amazon EventBridge
10 13 (3.69%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.69%) Azure App Service
11 11 (3.13%) Azure AKS
11 11 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.70%) Internet
2 1 (0.28%) HTTP
2 1 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 50 (14.20%) MongoDB
3 47 (13.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 33 (9.38%) NoSQL
5 25 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (5.68%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (3.98%) MySQL
8 13 (3.69%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.69%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.27%) Power BI
10 6 (1.70%) NonStop SQL
10 6 (1.70%) Redis
11 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.85%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 55 (15.63%) Git
2 14 (3.98%) Visual Studio
3 11 (3.13%) JIRA
4 7 (1.99%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.42%) MSTest
5 5 (1.42%) NUnit
6 3 (0.85%) GitLab
6 3 (0.85%) JMeter
6 3 (0.85%) Postman
6 3 (0.85%) Selenium
6 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.28%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.28%) NSubstitute
8 1 (0.28%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.28%) Vite
8 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 41 (11.65%) Finance
2 39 (11.08%) Social Skills
3 16 (4.55%) Law
4 13 (3.69%) Public Sector
5 9 (2.56%) Games
5 9 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (2.56%) Retail
6 8 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.27%) Legal
7 6 (1.70%) Advertising
8 5 (1.42%) Front Office
9 4 (1.14%) Banking
10 3 (0.85%) Back Office
10 3 (0.85%) Marketing
10 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.57%) Local Government
11 2 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.28%) Automotive
12 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 263 (74.72%) Developer
2 138 (39.20%) .NET Developer
3 88 (25.00%) Senior
4 82 (23.30%) Software Developer
5 65 (18.47%) C# Developer
6 59 (16.76%) Senior Developer
7 46 (13.07%) Full-Stack Developer
8 41 (11.65%) Lead
9 39 (11.08%) Software Engineer
10 31 (8.81%) C# .NET Developer
11 24 (6.82%) Senior .NET Developer
12 23 (6.53%) Lead Developer
13 22 (6.25%) React Developer
14 21 (5.97%) Azure Developer
14 21 (5.97%) Senior C# Developer
15 20 (5.68%) C# Software Developer
15 20 (5.68%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 19 (5.40%) .NET Software Engineer
16 19 (5.40%) Senior Software Developer
17 18 (5.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (100.00%) .NET
2 144 (40.91%) ASP.NET
3 109 (30.97%) React
4 89 (25.28%) .NET Framework
5 82 (23.30%) AngularJS
6 69 (19.60%) RESTful
7 63 (17.90%) HTML
8 59 (16.76%) Entity Framework
9 56 (15.91%) ASP.NET MVC
9 56 (15.91%) CSS
10 52 (14.77%) Blazor
11 51 (14.49%) ASP.NET Web API
12 40 (11.36%) Vue
13 38 (10.80%) ASP.NET Core
14 37 (10.51%) Node.js
15 29 (8.24%) HTML5
16 25 (7.10%) REST
17 17 (4.83%) CSS3
18 15 (4.26%) LINQ
19 13 (3.69%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.51%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (3.41%) AI Agents
3 12 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 7 (1.99%) Digital TV
6 7 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.70%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.70%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.42%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.42%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.42%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.85%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.85%) Sports Betting
10 3 (0.85%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.57%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.85%) Windows
2 2 (0.57%) Linux
3 1 (0.28%) Android
3 1 (0.28%) VMS
3 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (43.47%) Agile
2 139 (39.49%) Full-Stack Development
3 112 (31.82%) Microservices
4 111 (31.53%) CI/CD
5 90 (25.57%) DevOps
6 88 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 77 (21.88%) MVC
8 50 (14.20%) Containerisation
9 46 (13.07%) Clean Code
10 45 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (12.50%) Scrum
12 42 (11.93%) SDLC
13 40 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (10.80%) TDD
15 33 (9.38%) Mentoring
16 32 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
17 29 (8.24%) OO
18 28 (7.95%) AI
19 25 (7.10%) BDD
19 25 (7.10%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 306 (86.93%) C#
2 150 (42.61%) SQL
3 131 (37.22%) JavaScript
4 61 (17.33%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.82%) Python
6 10 (2.84%) Rust
6 10 (2.84%) T-SQL
7 7 (1.99%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.70%) Bicep
9 5 (1.42%) Java
10 3 (0.85%) Bash
10 3 (0.85%) Erlang
10 3 (0.85%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.57%) XAML
12 1 (0.28%) C++
12 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (9.66%) Degree
2 13 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 11 (3.13%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (2.84%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.27%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.70%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.83%) QA
2 9 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.99%) WCAG
4 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 73 (20.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (13.35%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.23%) Terraform
3 2 (0.57%) Ansible
4 1 (0.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 113 (32.10%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.70%) Facebook
2 6 (1.70%) YouTube
3 4 (1.14%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.14%) Google
4 3 (0.85%) Databricks
5 2 (0.57%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (0.57%) Foundry
5 2 (0.57%) ION Trading
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle
6 1 (0.28%) IBM
6 1 (0.28%) IONA
6 1 (0.28%) Okta
6 1 (0.28%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow